Event: Darick Robertson will appear at New England Comics – Harvard Square on
Wednesday, June 24, 2015! He will sign at the Malden store from 3:00 –
5:00 PM and the Harvard Square store from 6:00 – 8:00 PM! Darick’s work
includes Transmetropolitan with Warren Ellis, The Boys with Garth Ennis
and Happy! with Grant Morrison! Darick has also worked on Wolverine,
Nightcrawler, New Warriors, and Punisher for Marvel!

Interview: David Harper talks to Image Comics Publisher Eric Stephenson, not about publishing but about Stephenson’s own work, Nowhere Men and They’re Not Like Us.

Interview:Gary Panter talks about his art and the milieu in which it was made.

Interview:Geoff Klock, writer of the book The Future of Comics, the Future of Men,
discusses what a sustainable, ethical comics industry might look like, why there is so little movie merch for women (and what
to do about it), and how superhero comics can be bad for men.

David Harper’s website, Sktchd,
has a great run-down of what comic artists make based on gender, and
how most artists in comics today, no matter what their platform, aren’t
making a living wage with their art. The numbers aren’t pretty, though
there’s some room for hope.

Is former manga powerhouse Tokyopop coming back? Once the largest publisher of manga in North America, the company stopped publishing new manga in 2011, but didn’t go bankrupt and never really went away